Can I donate blood after getting vaccinated?

2024-12-02

Recipients of inactivated vaccines, recombinant DNA vaccines, and toxoid injections

If without any symptoms or adverse reactions, the vaccine recipients can engage in blood donation until 24 hours after receiving the vaccine, including typhoid vaccine, freeze-dried inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine, adsorbed diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis combined vaccine, inactivated hepatitis A vaccine, recombinant hepatitis B vaccine, and inactivated whole-virus influenza vaccine.

Recipients of attenuated live vaccines

Individuals can donate blood two weeks after receiving the final dose of live vaccines for measles, mumps, and polio, or four weeks after receiving the final dose of live vaccines for rubella, human rabies, and Japanese encephalitis.

Recipients of vaccines due to exposure history

Individuals who have received rabies vaccinations after being bitten by animals are not eligible to donate blood until one year after their last immunization.

Recipient of biological product therapy

Individuals who have received antitoxin and immune serum injections can donate blood four weeks after their last injection, including tetanus antitoxin, rabies antiserum, and others. Those who have received hepatitis B immunoglobulin injections can donate blood one year later.